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Embracing the Unknown
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Spiritual practice, Pema Chödrön teaches, has nothing to do with self-improvement, since, as the course's title claims, you're already perfect right now. The limitless qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are your deep-down, ultimate reality, and those are qualities that can't be improved upon. If you're not feeling particularly kind, compassionate, joyful, or equanimous at the moment, take heart: the Four Limitless Ones are there like seeds, waiting to be cultivated through practice.
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- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27
We all have fears, but when we look closely at them, we discover that behind each fear resides a basic fear of ourselves. We're afraid to look at our habitual styles of thinking and behaving because we might not always like what we see. Ironically it is this fear of honest self-reflection that keeps us trapped in patterns of stress and discontentment. Here is a vision for moving beyond this most basic fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and joy that reside at the core of our being.
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Pema Live
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Making Friends with Your Mind
- The Key to Contentment
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- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 447
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 382
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Story5 out of 5 stars 373
Have you ever found yourself thinking your way into a tangle of fret, frustration, or gloom? And then something small - a few kind words, the sun glancing through the clouds, a warm cup of tea - gave you a welcome pause from all your inner chatter? With Making Friends with Your Mind, that's what Pema Chödrön helps us to do, not by chance but with our full intention: to stop fighting with our thoughts and reopen ourselves to wonder as naturally as we breathe.
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,671
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Fully Alive
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- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In this recorded retreat, based on the program Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change held at Omega Institute, Pema Chödrön and her teaching assistant, Meg Wheatley, provide a wealth of wisdom for learning to step right into the river: to be completely, fearlessly present even in the hardest times, the most difficult situations. It's the secret of being fully alive.
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Be Grateful to Everyone
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- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 53
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One of the best ways to bring meditation off the cushion and into everyday life is to practice lojong (or mind training). For centuries, Tibetans have used 59 powerful mind-training slogans as a way to transform life's ordinary situations into opportunities for awakening. In this audiobook program, Pema Chödrön presents her definitive teachings on lojong. She offers an overview of the practice and goes on to provide inspiring commentary on the slogans while paying special attention to how to apply them on the spot in our daily lives.
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Best Heart
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The Fearless Heart
- The Practice of Living with Courage and Compassion
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story5 out of 5 stars 29
Fear and guilt are two of the greatest challenges we face on the spiritual path - but there is a way to transform these painful feelings into courageous self-acceptance. Here Pema Chödrön presents the five aphorisms for developing fearlessness that were given to Machig Lapdronma, one of Tibetan Buddhism's greatest female teachers. Pema comments on these aphorisms, holds question-and-answer sessions, and leads guided meditations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome teachings! I have been looking for this for many years
- By Rudy Montoya on 03-01-18
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When Pain is the Doorway
- Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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What if the full sense of our aliveness were only to be found amidst our most challenging times and difficult experiences? In pain and crisis, teaches Pema Chödrön, there lies a hidden doorway to freedom that appears to us only when we're sure that there is no way out. In these intimate audio learning sessions, Pema Chödrön helps us distinguish the triggers or external events that we blame for our suffering from the deeper habitual patterns that feed our anger, fear, or sadness.
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- By ClosetGeek on 10-12-13
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The Places That Scare You
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- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. This audiobook teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others, to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GREAT book
- By Amazon Customer on 01-25-18
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When Things Fall Apart
- Heart Advice for Difficult Times
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Pema Chödrön's perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life's difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth, and makes for a perfect addition to one's spiritual library. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Cassandra was not a good choice for a narrator
- By Shiva on 07-04-18
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Don't Bite the Hook
- Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Life has a way of provoking us with traffic jams and computer malfunctions, with emotionally distant partners and crying children - and before we know it, we're upset. We feel terrible, and then we end up saying and doing things that only make matters worse. But it doesn't have to be that way, says Pema Chödrön. It is possible to relate constructively to the inevitable shocks, losses, and frustrations of life so that we can find true happiness. The key, Pema explains, is not biting the "hook" of our habitual responses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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always inspiring
- By Barbara J on 12-09-18
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The Pema Chodron Audio Collection
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Pema Chodron, one of the West's most beloved teachers of Buddhism, makes the Tibetan vajrayana tradition accessible in today's world. Now three of her most popular teachings are available in one audiobook set.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- By Apryl on 10-08-06
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Liberation Upon Hearing in the Between
- Living with the Tibetan Book of the Dead
- By: Robert Thurman
- Narrated by: Robert Thurman
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Thurman illuminates the Tibetan Book of the Dead with up-to-date insights for modern audiences. For centuries, this text has been read aloud to the dying, who Buddhist masters say are capable of hearing up to three days after clinical death, as a guide through the tumultuous and often terrifying process of dissolution. Now, in Liberation Upon Hearing in the Between, Professor Robert Thurman demystifies this esoteric teaching and reveals the Tibetan view of dying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At Long last
- By William on 03-31-12
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The Courage to Love the World
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Original Recording
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Pain, loss, shame, sadness - suffering is an unavoidable part of being human. The practice of tonglen offers us a way to transform our relationship with suffering - our own and that which is all around us. In The Courage to Love the World, beloved teacher Pema Chödrön shares insightful and heartfelt stories about tonglen, along with direct instruction and guided practice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Palestinians
- By Sonia Allison on 01-13-19
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The Truth of Our Existence
- Four Teachings from the Buddha to Illuminate Your Life
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 343
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What would happen if we looked with fresh eyes at the struggles and "impossible situations" that we face every day - and found there four gifts that changed everything? For decades, Pema Chödrön has brought clarity and heart to the core teachings of the Buddha, helping to make them relevant and useful in our everyday lives. With The Truth of Our Existence, she immerses us in one of Buddhism’s essential distillations of written wisdom known as The Four Marks of Existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, as always
- By Bearinthehouse on 03-21-15
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Comfortable with Uncertainty
- 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook by Pema Chödrön, the renowned American Buddhist nun, offers short, stand-alone sections designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. More than a collection of thoughts for the day, Comfortable with Uncertainty offers a progressive program of spiritual study, leading the listener through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life-changing content.
- By Amber Williams on 03-01-18
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Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better
- Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 750
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When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chödrön promised that she'd speak at the commencement ceremony. Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better contains the wisdom shared on that day. "What do we do when life doesn't go the way we hoped?" begins Pema. "We say 'I'm a failure.'" But what if failing wasn't just "okay"... but the most direct way to becoming a more complete, loving, and fulfilled human being?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The perfect listen at the perfect time!
- By BARBARA J NELSON on 01-22-16
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Coming Closer to Ourselves
- Making Everything the Path of Awakening
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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In challenging times, why do so many of us turn to Pema Chödrön for guidance? Many say that it’s her honest and caring way of communicating the core teachings of Buddhism - not just conceptually, but directly from her heart to ours. In these inspiring sessions, she teaches us how to give that compassion to the person we neglect most often - ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a lecture
- By Marian on 02-17-15
Publisher's Summary
Life, death, and rebirth - Pema Chödrön on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
What happens when we die? One of the most treasured resources for understanding this essential question is the Tibetan Book of the Dead. With Embracing the Unknown, Pema Chödrön delves into the teachings of this extraordinary Buddhist text - not only for what it tells us about the journey of the soul beyond this life but also as a source of profound wisdom for navigating the uncertainty we face each day in “the bardo of this life”. In this landmark appearance recorded live at the Omega Institute, Pema explores the universal mystery of life, death, and rebirth, including:
- What is the bardo? How any state between an ending and a beginning gives us an unparalleled opportunity for transformation
- What is rebirth? Pema takes a deeper look at this concept and how it also occurs in our moment-to-moment experience
- Can we let go? Guidance for honoring the difficult emotions of fear, sadness, and grief with an open and curious heart
- How can we prepare? Meditation techniques and everyday practices for befriending change, groundlessness, and the unknown
- What can we really know about death? Why the teachings of the Book of the Dead are valuable no matter what you believe
“Death isn’t just something that happens at the end,” teaches Pema. “Life is continually arising, dwelling, ceasing, and arising. It’s a cycle that goes on every day, and continues to go on forever.” Featuring insightful Q&A sessions with a live audience, Embracing the Unknown invites you to explore the most daunting and liberating truth of our human experience - guided by Pema Chödrön’s hallmark blend of insight, humor, and fearless love.
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- debadventurer
- Sagle, ID
- 02-23-19
so helpful and insightful
i listened to a couple chapters each morning before my meditation. it's helped me put life in perspective and honor the flow of life.
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- ghardy
- 03-13-19
Another insight filled book from a favorite Author
Gained a deeper understanding of Tibetan views regarding the death process and rebirth. You should get at least one Aha moment from this easy to digest format. Definitely worth rereading a few times.
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